Correspondence and memos of Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC), an organization that worked to end school segregation and racial discrimination in Milwaukee through freedom schools, school boycotts, marches, demonstrations, and...

This folder contains school curricula and schedules for a “Freedom Day School,” to be held in Milwaukee on 18 May 1964. It is part of Helen I. Barnhill collection. Helen I. Barnhill was the executive secretary of the Milwaukee Citizens for Equal...

This document, released in May 1967, was a report to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. It deals with a number of issues effecting civil rights in the Milwaukee area such as segregation in schools, the bussing of students, open housing,...

Rozga was born and grew up on Milwaukee's South Side and became interested in civil rights while attending Alverno College. She discusses her experience registering voters in Alabama in 1965, the NAACP Youth Council's decision-making process and...

Reverend B.S. Gregg was pastor of St. Matthew CME church for several years, and served as treasurer of Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC) in 1964. Interview topics include his relationship with Mayor Maier, the Freedom Schools...

Milwaukee, Wisconsin Groppi center Father Groppi and children from Saint Boniface school join the public school boycott. He was ordered out of the school boycott by Bishop Athieliski (sp?) who refused to allow any Catholic facilities to be used...

Demonstrations--Wisconsin--Milwaukee;

1965

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